Your Next Home Could Run on Batteries!

Your Next Home Could Run on Batteries!

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RevoluSun

For years, you really only had one option to power your home: connection
to the electrical grid, which subjected you to usage rates that could
fluctuate seemingly at the whims of your utility company. Today, you’re
no longer stuck in this arrangement—it’s easier than ever
to power your home on your own using clean, sustainable solar power and
a battery-backup system.

How it Works

Solar power is great for producing electricity, but only during the day
when most homeowners are away at work. At these times, municipal grids
usually face an abundance of excess electricity because generation far
exceeds consumption. Later on, when homeowners return home from work,
energy usage spikes, placing a lot of added stress on the power grid.

The same is true for your solar panels.During the day, high-efficiency
solar panels will generate clean, renewable power. However, without anywhere
to go, that power will simply disappear uselessly. A battery backup system
instead takes this excess energy and stores it in a battery system for
future use. When your panels can no longer generate enough power to sustain
your home, your batteries switch on, providing you with clean, reliable power.

Those Batteries Store a Lot of Power

As you can imagine, battery powering your home requires more than just
your average AA-cell alkaline batteries like you put in the TV remote.
At RevoluSun, we’re proud to be a certified installer of the Tesla
Powerwall, the latest and greatest in home battery backup technology.
These systems use high-capacity lithium-ion type batteries to store an
immense amount of excess energy that your solar panel system generates
but your home doesn’t use, allowing you to keep it for later when
the sun goes down. When there is enough sun, solar power and a Tesla Powerwall
system can keep your home powered and running indefinitely.

The Tesla Powerwall installs easily in nearly every type of home, and many
states, including Hawaii, are considering incentives and tax credits to
homeowners who install these systems and reduce the strain on our state’s
aging electrical infrastructure.

And perhaps the best benefit is this technology is the cost, which has
dropped tremendously over the last few years. In fact, the cost has dropped
an average of 24% per year since 2010. Whereas these systems cost upwards
of $800 per kilowatt hour as little as five years ago, today the average
cost is hovering somewhere around $250 per kilowatt hour, dramatically
reducing the payback period.

For more information about installing a Tesla Powerwall system in your
home, call the Oahu solar power installation experts at RevoluSun today
at (808) 427-0277!